Mining, Displacement, and Matriliny in Meghalaya by Bitopi Dutta

Mining, Displacement, and Matriliny in Meghalaya by Bitopi Dutta

This book studies how Development Induced Displacement (DID) radically restructures gender relations in indigenous tribal societies.

Bitopi Dutta is an Assistant Professor at the School for Liberal Studies at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies(UPES), Dehradun, India. She has a PhD from the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland (2020), her Master of Arts in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai and her BA Hons. in Sociology from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, University of Delhi. She has been an Irish Research Council Awardee Scholar by the Government of Ireland and has four books on displacement studies including one on one traditonal method of conflict resolution to her authorship. Prior to joining UPES, she has taught in TISS and continues to be associated with film-making with her production house called Vortex Films, whose first feature film production has won the National Films Award in 2021. She is one of the pioneers of the Queer Movement in Northeast India and was the co-organiser of the first Queer Pride walk in Assam which took place in 2014. Her research interests include Gender and sexuality, Indigenous people, displacement studies, qualitative research.

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ISBN 13	9780367711283
ISBN 10	0367711281
Title	Mining, Displacement, and Matriliny in Meghalaya
Author	Bitopi Dutta
Series	Transition In Northeastern India
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Routledge India
Year published	2023-09-25
Number of pages	186
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